Trello pricing: when Standard is enough and when Premium starts to matter
Trello costs $0 on Free, $5 per user per month on Standard, $10 on Premium and $17.50 on Enterprise, with the three paid figures quoted for annual billing. Paid monthly, Standard is $6 and Premium is $12.50. Enterprise is annual only, shown as $210 per user per year. All figures below were read from the official Trello pricing page on October 8, 2026, in US dollars and before tax.
Those four numbers are the easy part. The harder questions are which limit pushes a team off Free, what the $5 jump from Standard to Premium actually buys, and who on the Workspace ends up counted as a paid seat. Those are the questions this page works through.
The four plans on one table
| Plan | Annual billing | Monthly billing | The limit or feature that defines it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Up to 10 boards and up to 10 collaborators per Workspace |
| Standard | $5 per user per month | $6 per user per month | Unlimited boards, AI features, card mirroring |
| Premium | $10 per user per month | $12.50 per user per month | Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views |
| Enterprise | $17.50 per user per month | Not offered | Unlimited Workspaces, Atlassian Guard Standard included |
Read the right hand column as the reason to buy each plan. Standard exists because Free runs out of boards. Premium exists because Standard only shows work as a board. Enterprise exists because an organization with many Workspaces needs one place to control them.
Every paid plan is bought for a Workspace, not for an individual account. Trello's own FAQ says that even a team of one has to create a Workspace and upgrade that Workspace to get Standard or Premium. The bill therefore follows the Workspace and the people in it, which matters later when counting seats.
Where the Free plan stops
Free is a permanent plan, not a trial. It includes unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups per board, an unlimited activity log, assignees and due dates, the Inbox, quick capture from email, Slack and Teams, the iOS and Android apps, and two factor authentication.
Four limits shape it in practice:
- Up to 10 boards per Workspace. This is the limit most teams hit first, usually after adopting one board per client or per project.
- Up to 10 collaborators per Workspace.
- 10MB per file. Storage is unlimited, but a single attachment cannot exceed 10MB. A screen recording or a large design export will not fit.
- 250 Workspace command runs per month for automation.
The Planner, which places scheduled cards on a calendar, is view only on Free.
The pattern that pushes teams to pay is predictable. A small team starts on Free, uses it happily for a few months, and then the eleventh board is refused. At that moment the decision is not really about features. It is about whether to archive old boards and stay, or to pay for the Workspace. A team that archives finished project boards regularly can stay on Free for a long time. A team that keeps every past project open as reference will not.
What $5 per seat buys on Standard
Standard is $5 per user per month on annual billing, $6 on monthly. The page describes it as everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited boards, which removes the most common reason to leave Free
- The AI features
- Quick capture from email, Slack and Teams powered by AI
- Full access to Planner, so cards can be dragged onto a calendar to block time
- Advanced checklists, which allow members and due dates on individual checklist items
- Card mirroring, which shows one card on several boards and lets it be edited from any of them
- Custom Fields
- List colors and collapsible lists
- 250MB per file
- 1,000 Workspace command runs per month
- Single board guests
- Saved searches
Two items on that list deserve a closer look.
The first is AI. In many tools AI is the newest thing and sits on the most expensive plan, or is sold as a separate per user add-on. On the Trello comparison table, AI summarization, AI organization, AI generated boards and AI powered quick capture start at Standard. Nothing in the AI set changes on Premium. A team that wants AI and nothing else from a paid plan has no reason to look beyond $5.
The second is single board guests. An outside person, a client or a freelancer, who only needs to see one board can be added to that board as a guest. The cost implications are covered in the billing section below, and they are often the difference between a reasonable bill and a surprising one.
Standard does not include the Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard or Map views. On Standard, work is seen as lists of cards, plus the personal Planner.
What another $5 per seat buys on Premium
Premium is $10 per user per month on annual billing and $12.50 on monthly. Monthly Premium therefore costs 25 percent more than annual Premium, while monthly Standard costs 20 percent more than annual Standard.
The additions over Standard fall into three groups.
Views. Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views on each board, plus Workspace level Table and Calendar views that span several boards. Timeline is the closest Trello gets to a Gantt style plan. Workspace Table is the only built in way to see cards from many boards in one sortable list.
Automation without a ceiling. Unlimited Workspace command runs, and command run administration, which lets an administrator disable commands created by other people.
Administration. Admin and security features including domain restricted invites and the ability to deactivate members, Workspace level templates, board collections for grouping boards, Observers (a setting that limits what a user can do on a board), and simple data export.
The question to ask before upgrading is simple. Does the team need to see work against dates, or across boards? If the answer is no, Premium is mostly paying for administration. If the answer is yes, there is no lower plan that provides those views, and Premium is the floor.
Trello's FAQ also states that every user can enroll a Workspace in a free trial of Premium. Running the trial during a real deadline week is the most reliable way to find out whether the team actually opens Timeline and Calendar, or keeps working from the board.
Who counts as a paid seat
This is the part of Trello pricing that tends to surprise teams, because the per seat figure is only as useful as the seat count behind it.
According to the billing FAQ on the pricing page:
- Anyone added to the Workspace as a member, either as a normal member or as an admin, is a billable member on Standard or Premium.
- A guest who is on more than one board in the Workspace is a multi-board guest and is billed at the same rate as a Workspace member.
- A guest on a single board is not described as billable. Standard includes single board guests as a feature.
The practical consequence is that a client who is invited to two boards costs the same as a full team member. The same client invited to one shared board does not. Agencies and consultancies that give each client a view into their work can control a large part of the bill with this one decision: keep each outside party to one board.
There is a second rule worth knowing before committing. When a Workspace downgrades from Standard or Premium, it keeps the paid features and unlimited boards until the end of the prepaid period. After that it becomes a free Workspace that can hold 10 boards. Boards beyond the tenth are not part of what the free Workspace offers, so a downgrade plan should include deciding which boards to close first.
Enterprise, Atlassian Guard and the SSO question
Enterprise is $17.50 per user per month, billed annually only, which the page shows as $210.00 per user per year. A cost estimator on the page calculates a figure for a given number of users. Enterprise adds unlimited Workspaces, organization wide permissions, organization visible boards, public board management, multi-board guests, attachment permissions and Power-Up administration. It includes Atlassian Guard Standard and 24/7 Enterprise Admin support.
Single sign on is where smaller teams need to read carefully. SAML SSO runs through Atlassian Guard, which the pricing page describes as a separate subscription that starts at $4 per user per month and can be enabled across all Atlassian products.
That creates two possible routes for a team that needs SSO:
| Route | Per user per month, annual | What else comes with it |
|---|---|---|
| Premium plus Atlassian Guard | $10 + from $4 = from $14 | Premium views and admin features |
| Enterprise | $17.50 | Guard Standard, unlimited Workspaces, organization wide controls |
If the only reason for considering Enterprise is SSO, the first route starts cheaper. If the organization runs several Workspaces and needs central control over them, Enterprise is the plan built for that.
The costs that do not appear on the price card
Partner Power-Ups. Every plan allows unlimited Power-Ups per board, connecting Trello to more than 200 apps. The pricing page adds a note that some Power-Ups built by partners require an additional subscription fee. A board that depends on a third party time tracking, reporting or Gantt Power-Up may carry a second bill priced by that partner.
Monthly billing. Paying month to month raises Standard from $5 to $6 and Premium from $10 to $12.50 per seat.
Seat creep. Multi-board guests are billed as members. A Workspace that has grown informally over a year usually contains people who were invited to several boards once and never removed.
Here is what the listed annual rates come to over a year, before tax and before any partner Power-Up:
| Seats | Standard, annual | Premium, annual | Premium, paid monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | $300 | $600 | $750 |
| 10 | $600 | $1,200 | $1,500 |
| 25 | $1,500 | $3,000 | $3,750 |
At ten seats the step from Standard to Premium is $600 a year. That is the price of date based views and unlimited automation for the whole team.
Some project management tools take a different approach and include kanban, Gantt, calendar and chat on every plan, charging by the number of people and boards instead of by view. The Trello comparison page sets the two models side by side, and existing boards can be brought across with the Trello import if the team wants to test the difference on real work.
What to change first
Before paying, decide whether the team needs more boards or a different way to see the boards it already has, because that answer separates a $5 seat from a $10 one. Then audit the member list for guests on more than one board, since each of them is billed as a full seat. If the per seat cost of views is the real sticking point, compare it with Pinateca, which includes Gantt and calendar boards on its free plan for up to five people and ten boards.
Q1. Is Trello free for a small team?
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and is not time limited. It allows up to 10 boards and up to 10 collaborators per Workspace, with a 10MB limit per file and 250 automation command runs per month. Teams usually upgrade when they need an eleventh board or larger attachments.
Q2. What is the difference between Trello Standard and Premium?
Standard, at $5 per user per month billed annually, adds unlimited boards, AI features, card mirroring, Custom Fields and 1,000 command runs. Premium, at $10, adds Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, Workspace level views across boards, unlimited command runs and admin controls. The AI features are the same on both.
Q3. Do Trello guests count toward the bill?
A guest on a single board is not billed, and single board guests are a Standard feature. A guest who is on more than one board in the Workspace is a multi-board guest and is billed at the same rate as a Workspace member on Standard or Premium.
Q4. How much does Trello cost if paid monthly instead of annually?
Standard is $6 per user per month and Premium is $12.50 per user per month when billed monthly, compared with $5 and $10 on annual billing. Enterprise is only offered with annual billing at $17.50 per user per month.
Q5. What happens to boards after downgrading from a paid Trello plan?
The Workspace keeps its paid features and unlimited boards until the end of the prepaid period. After that it becomes a free Workspace that can hold 10 boards, so it is worth deciding in advance which boards to close.
Q6. Does Trello include single sign on?
SAML single sign on runs through Atlassian Guard, a separate subscription that starts at $4 per user per month. Enterprise includes Atlassian Guard Standard. On the other plans, Guard has to be added on top.